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_________________________________________________________________________ Summary Job title Postdoctoral Research Associate in Early Modern History, Material Culture & Heritage Division Humanities Department Faculty of English Location The Stephen A Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, Woodstock Road, Oxford, with regular (funded) travel to National Trust sites Grade and salary Grade 7: £38,674 to £46,913 per annum Hours Full time Contract type Fixed-term (12 months) Reporting to Professor Nandini Das Vacancy reference 179690 It is anticipated that the researcher will take up their post on 1 October 2025, or as soon as possible thereafter. Additional Information Closing date for applications is midday on Friday 6 June 2025. Shortlisting is expected to take place the following week and interviews will take place online during the week commencing 16 June 2025. For informal enquiries, please contact Alice Purkiss: alice.purkiss@humanities.ox.ac.uk The role This fixed term, non-renewable, one year full-time postdoctoral position will support a new collaborative project titled, ‘Knotted Histories: Early Modern Global Carpets, Global Exchange and the Public Country House.’ Building upon a cross-sector collaboration between Oxford’s English Faculty, the Ashmolean Museum and the National Trust (NT), this project aims to redefine cultural and global contexts of carpet production and use beyond traditional and outdated connoisseurial approaches. Led by Prof. Nandini Das (Oxford), Dr Francesca Leoni (Ashmolean Museum), Dr Christo Kefalas & Emma Slocombe (National Trust), the project aims to illuminate the latent potential of global carpet collections for rethinking scholarship and heritage sector practice relating to wider histories of production and consumerism, sociability and embodiment, and global networks of exchange. This project will redefine carpet scholarship, through a renewed focus on craft makers and manufacture and an examination of structures of cultural meaning across East and South Asia and Europe. The National Trust’s carpet collection is the largest in the UK and contains over 3000 textiles made over 500 years, most displayed in the historic interiors they were acquired to furnish. However, the cultural and community significances of its rare early modern carpets are little understood and remain overlooked. The project will test and define its approach through two NT property case studies, selected as representative collection types and indicative of the challenges they pose: Ham House, London and Knole, Kent. These will be supported by research into the Beattie Archive at the Ashmolean, a unique resource of hundreds of carpet analyses and weavings documented by the pioneering carpet scholar May Hamilton Beattie. Including fibre samples alongside documentary material, it provides vital contextual and technical data to further carpet-related scholarship. The role combines scholarly research in the areas indicating under ‘Responsibilities’ below, with professional development opportunities with the heritage sector, intersecting humanities research and heritage science. The PDRA will be encouraged to participate in Oxford’s vibrant Early Modern research community (e.g. the Centre for Early Modern Studies, TIDE@Oxford, and the Early Modern Visual and Material Culture Seminar) and professional training will be offered in support of the PDRA's interests and skills, where relevant (e.g. curatorial training, object handling, collections care, Oxford’s Heritage Pathway programme). The PDRA will gain insights into curatorial and conservation practice at the National Trust and the Ashmolean Museum, experience of project management and major grant development, and have the opportunity to network with national and international researchers and museum professionals. They will publish their work in scholarly, sector and public-facing outputs, e.g. NT’s Cultural Heritage Magazine. The PDRA will have the opportunity to travel to a range of National Trust sites and both national and local archives. They will also undertake primary research at Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and establish networks with German museum professionals in support of the wider project’s development. There will be an opportunity to seek membership of the Senior Common Room at Exeter College. If you would like to discuss this opportunity, we would be interested to hear from you. Please contact Alice Purkiss: alice.purkiss@humanities.ox.ac.uk It is anticipated that the researcher will take up their post on 1 October 2025, or as soon as possible thereafter. Interviews are expected to take place online on the afternoon of the 16th June 2025. Responsibilities The postdoctoral researcher will be expected to:     Conduct independent research at National Trust case study sites, the Ashmolean Museum, libraries, national and international archives/sites, creating a literature review and collaboratively developing new methodologies Prepare research publications (e.g. research papers) and present papers at conferences Contribute to sector/public facing outputs (enhanced catalogue records, curator talks etc.) Co-convene interdisciplinary workshops with identified partners   Collaborate with curators, conservators, and project partners on technical analysis of historic carpets, including fibre, weave, and dye studies Support the development of a major funding bid in collaboration with the project team Selection criteria Essential         A PhD/D.Phil in a relevant humanities discipline (e.g. art history, history, material culture, literary history or a relevant interdisciplinary field) Established or developing track record of outstanding research Publication record appropriate to career stage Experience and confidence in handling and transcribing early modern documents and archival materials, including skills in early modern palaeography Wider understanding of early modern trade history and material culture, especially portable artefacts Familiarity with carpet production and scholarship Ability to manage own academic work and related activities independently Excellent communications skills and aptitude for collaborative, interdisciplinary and public engagement work Desirable     Demonstrable enthusiasm for and understanding of early modern material culture, including textiles Desirable languages: one or more of Persian, Arabic, Latin, Italian Interest in working with the museum and heritage sectors Experience of public engagement with research, e.g. writing for non-academic audiences Pre-employment screening Standard checks If you are offered the post, the offer will be subject to standard pre-employment checks. You will be asked to provide: proof of your right-to-work in the UK; proof of your identity; and (if we haven’t done so already) we will contact the referees you have nominated. You will also be asked to complete a health declaration so that you can tell us about any health conditions or disabilities for which you may need us to make appropriate adjustments. Please read the candidate notes on the University’s pre-employment screening procedures at: https://www.jobs.ox.ac.uk/pre-employment-checks About the University of Oxford Welcome to the University of Oxford. We aim to lead the world in research and education for the benefit of society both in the UK and globally. Oxford’s researchers engage with academic, commercial and cultural partners across the world to stimulate high-quality research and enable innovation through a broad range of social, policy and economic impacts. We believe our strengths lie both in empowering individuals and teams to address fundamental questions of global significance, while providing all our staff with a welcoming and inclusive workplace that enables everyone to develop and do their best work. Recognising that diversity is our strength, vital for innovation and creativity, we aspire to build a truly diverse community which values and respects every individual’s unique contribution. While we have long traditions of scholarship, we are also forward-looking, creative and cutting-edge. Oxford is one of Europe's most entrepreneurial universities and we rank first in the UK for university spinouts, and in recent years we have spun out 15-20 new companies every year. We are also recognised as leaders in support for social enterprise. Join us and you will find a unique, democratic and international community, a great range of staff benefits and access to a vibrant array of cultural activities in the beautiful city of Oxford. For more information, please visit www.ox.ac.uk/about/organisation. Humanities Division The Humanities Division is one of four academic divisions in the University of Oxford, each with a full-time Head and elected Board. The Humanities Division is distinctive for its depth and breadth. Its activity spans nine faculties, one School and two independent research institutes: the faculties of Classics; English; History; Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics; Medieval and Modern Languages; Music; Asian & Middle Eastern Studies; Philosophy; and Theology and Religion; the Ruskin School of Art; the Rothermere American Institute and the Voltaire Foundation. Interdisciplinary links within and beyond the University are strong, extending to the social sciences, medical sciences and the natural and physical sciences. One of the largest centres for Humanities internationally, with over 800 members of academic and research staff, the Division offers world-class research and teaching, backed by the superb resources of the University’s libraries and museums, including the famous Bodleian Library, with its 11 million volumes and priceless early book and manuscript collections, the Pitt Rivers Museum, the History of Science Museum and the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology. Such historic resources are linked to cutting-edge agendas in research and teaching, with an increasing emphasis on interdisciplinary study and digital Humanities. The outstanding quality of Humanities research at Oxford is recognised globally. This reputation for research excellence contributes to the University coming top of several international rankings for Arts and Humanities, including the US News and World Report rankings and the QS World University Rankings by Subject. The Division’s faculties are among the largest in the world, enabling Oxford to offer an education in Arts and Humanities unparalleled in its range of subjects, from music and fine art to ancient and modern languages. The Division has responsibility for over 4,000 undergraduates (a third of the University’s total undergraduate population), and for over 2,000 postgraduate students (over 1,100 doctoral students and some 900 Master’s students). Twenty-nine undergraduate courses are offered in Humanities subjects, seven of which are offered jointly with the other academic divisions. The Doctoral and Master’s programmes offered are distributed across all of the Division’s faculties, along with a suite of Master’s courses offered with the Social Sciences Division and a growing portfolio of Master’s courses that draw from across the Humanities. The Division is part of the Open-Oxford Cambridge AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership. The Humanities Division has embarked on a major building project on the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, supported by a £185 million gift to create the Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. For more information please visit: http://www.humanities.ox.ac.uk/ The Schwarzman Centre The teaching and study of the humanities is so important because it tells the story of what it means to be human - who we are, where we came from, and how our culture, literature and language have developed over time. With over 700 academic staff and 6,000 students, Oxford Humanities leads the world in the breadth and depth of subject coverage and the quality of teaching and research. But don’t just take our word for it - the latest QS World University Rankings placed us at number one. The new Humanities building will take our teaching, research and public engagement to new heights. For the first time in the University’s history, seven humanities faculties will be housed together along with a new library. These disciplines are currently scattered in buildings across Oxford but they will be united in a new building designed to encourage cross-disciplinary study and research. Academics in the building will work together to tackle some of the most pressing questions of our time. As well as a new Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence, they will consider the environment and how society rebuilds after the pandemic. Crucially, the building will be open to the public, and we aim to bring research and performance in the arts and humanities to new audiences. There will be dedicated space for schoolchildren to visit and engage with Oxford’s researchers. There will be exhibition space and three new performance venues for music, theatre, drama, dance, lectures and more. A new Cultural Programme will bring the world's leading performers and artists to Oxford. Our venues will also be open to regional cultural organisations, with whom Oxford researchers will strengthen partnerships. We cannot wait to welcome you to the first performance in 2025! English Faculty The Faculty of English is the largest English Department in the UK, and has a very distinguished research record (awarded the top grade in the last two research assessment exercises). We have been ranked top in the QS World Rankings in the subject for the last eight years and our teaching has been graded ‘Excellent’ in every Quality Assurance review. The English Faculty’s teaching and research covers literature in English from works in Old English of the 7th century to the current period of what has been called global English. The spread of historical expertise places the Faculty in a unique position to speak authoritatively about the long history of the literatures and languages of the British Isles, as well as the diaspora and interchange of literatures and languages that emerged from them. Students have opportunities to trace the development of literature from early manuscripts to current digital and hybrid forms; they benefit from a distinctive experience of close personal supervision with leading academics, in turn developing their own communities and identities as critics and researchers. The Faculty currently has 80 permanent members of academic staff, including 9 statutory Professors. This is in addition to a further 100 or so members teaching in the colleges and temporary members of staff. A list of Faculty members and their research interests is available on the website. For more information, please visit: www.english.ox.ac.uk. How to apply Applications are made through our online recruitment portal. Information about how to apply is available on our Jobs website https://www.jobs.ox.ac.uk/how-to-apply. Your application will be judged solely on the basis of how you demonstrate that you meet the selection criteria stated in the job description. As part of your application you will be asked to provide details of two referees and indicate whether we can contact them now. You will be asked to upload a CV and a two page supporting statement outlining previous research (e.g. doctoral project) and indicating how you meet the selection criteria for the post using examples of your skills and experience. This may include experience gained in employment, education, or during career breaks (such as time out to care for dependants). Please upload all documents as PDF files with your name and the document type in the filename. All applications must be received by midday UK time on the closing date stated in the online advertisement. Shortlisted candidates will be asked to supply 1 piece of written work (up to 8000 words including notes), either in the form of chapters of their doctoral work, or published articles. If you currently work for the University please note that: - as part of the referencing process, we will contact your current department to confirm basic employment details including reason for leaving although employees may hold multiple part-time posts, they may not hold more than the equivalent of a full-time post. If you are offered this post, and accepting it would take you over the equivalent of full-time hours, you will be expected to resign from, or reduce hours in, your other posts(s) before starting work in the new post. 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**Contract type** Fixed-term (12 months) from 1 October 2025 until 30 September 2026 **Hours** Full time **About the role** The English Faculty is seeking to appoint a Postdoctoral Research Associate to a one-year fixed-term research post which will support a new collaborative project titled, _‘ Knotted Histories: Early Modern Global Carpets, Global Exchange and the Public Country House.’_ Led by Prof. Nandini Das (Oxford), Dr Francesca Leoni (Ashmolean Museum), Dr Christo Kefalas & Emma Slocombe (National Trust), the project aims to illuminate the latent potential of global carpet collections for rethinking scholarship and heritage sector practice relating to wider histories of production and consumerism, sociability and embodiment, and global networks of exchange. This project will redefine carpet scholarship through a renewed focus on craft makers and manufacture and an examination of structures of cultural meaning across East and South Asia and Europe. **About you** You will pursue your own independent research within this framework, building networks with national and international museum professionals, publishing articles, and will participate in ongoing research and public engagement projects. You must possess a doctorate in a relevant humanities discipline, have a track record of outstanding research, and have a good publication record. You will ideally have experience of public engagement work. The duties and skills required are described in further detail in the job description. **Application process** For your online application, you will be required to upload your curriculum vitae and a supporting statement, which outlines your previous research and indicates how you meet the selection criteria for the post. As part of your application you will be asked to provide details of two referees and indicate whether we can contact them now. For further details, please refer to the How to apply section of the job description. If you would like to discuss this opportunity we would be interested to hear from you. Please contact Alice Purkiss: alice.purkiss@humanities.ox.ac.uk. The closing date for applications is 12.00 noon on Friday 6 June 2025. Only applications received before this time can be considered. Shortlisting is expected to take place the following week and interviews will take place online during the week commencing 16 June 2025. Please quote Vacancy ID 179690 on all correspondence. **Committed to equality and valuing diversity**
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Contract type Fixed-term (12 months) from 1 October 2025 until 30 September 2026 Hours Full time About the role The English Faculty is seeking to appoint a Postdoctoral Research Associate to a one-year fixed-term research post which will support a new collaborative project titled, ‘Knotted Histories: Early Modern Global Carpets, Global Exchange and the Public Country House.’ Led by Prof. Nandini Das (Oxford), Dr Francesca Leoni (Ashmolean Museum), Dr Christo Kefalas & Emma Slocombe (National Trust), the project aims to illuminate the latent potential of global carpet collections for rethinking scholarship and heritage sector practice relating to wider histories of production and consumerism, sociability and embodiment, and global networks of exchange. This project will redefine carpet scholarship through a renewed focus on craft makers and manufacture and an examination of structures of cultural meaning across East and South Asia and Europe. About you You will pursue your own independent research within this framework, building networks with national and international museum professionals, publishing articles, and will participate in ongoing research and public engagement projects. You must possess a doctorate in a relevant humanities discipline, have a track record of outstanding research, and have a good publication record. You will ideally have experience of public engagement work. The duties and skills required are described in further detail in the job description. Application process For your online application, you will be required to upload your curriculum vitae and a supporting statement, which outlines your previous research and indicates how you meet the selection criteria for the post. As part of your application you will be asked to provide details of two referees and indicate whether we can contact them now. For further details, please refer to the How to apply section of the job description. If you would like to discuss this opportunity we would be interested to hear from you. Please contact Alice Purkiss: alice.purkiss@humanities.ox.ac.uk. The closing date for applications is 12.00 noon on Friday 6 June 2025. Only applications received before this time can be considered. Shortlisting is expected to take place the following week and interviews will take place online during the week commencing 16 June 2025. Please quote Vacancy ID 179690 on all correspondence. Committed to equality and valuing diversity
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